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The story on the CBC is a gentle one, Graeme Decarie comments
/35 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillIn the following Q & A with Graeme Decarie, I’ve added some headings for ease in reading of the text. Jaan Pill: You worked for CBC and private radio for quite a few years. I would be interested in your comments (for my website) about a recent article by Linden MacIntyre: Why I Left The CBC […]
1989 was a critical year in the history of Eastern and Central Europe, and of the world
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillTwenty-five years ago in the summer of 1989, I travelled to the Baltic countries of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia – at that time still under occupation by the Soviet Union. I also travelled to Sweden, which had maintained a state of neutrality, or at least the appearance of it, through the First and Second World […]
While social conformity has many prosocial functions, it can get in the way of self-awareness
/0 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI had the good fortune to get to know students in the Grade 4 age range when I worked as a teacher with the Peel District School Board prior to my retirement in 2006. My retirement was marked with a school assembly at which I gave an eight-minute presentation. A group of students entertained the […]
As it turns out, a person really can’t get away from what we like to call civilization
/0 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillAs I’ve noted in a previous post, I’m an enthusiastic practitioner of reality tourism, a concept that in my usage of the term covers quite a bit more than visits made by affluent tourists to urban slums. Any excursion anywhere, even from one room to another, can be viewed as reality tourism, in my understanding […]
A Meeting of the People: School Boards and Protestant Communities in Quebec, 1801-1998 (2004)
/0 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter/by Jaan PillThis post is a follow-up to an earlier post about Cartierville School. A useful reference, regarding topics in the post, is A Meeting of the People: School Boards and Protestant Communities in Quebec, 1801-1998 (2004). You can access the study online at Google Books. You can do a search for “Cartierville” at the link in the previous sentence. […]
The TTC streetcar no longer stops at Thirty Ninth Street in Long Branch
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillA neighbour has kindly shared the following message with me: “I wanted to let you know. I found out from Mark Grimes’ office the streetcar no longer stops at 39th street.” The neighbour mentions her daughter had been waiting one morning and the streetcar went right by. “I inquired with Mark Grimes office,” the neighbour […]